Agent-Friendly Repo Foundation in ExcelAlchemy

I’ve been using the chore/agent-friendly-repo-foundation branch(https://lnkd.in/gtypVfA9) in ExcelAlchemy as an experiment in agent-friendly engineering. The interesting part is not just asking an agent to write code. It’s shaping the repo so an agent can actually navigate it: clear docs, explicit architecture, stable public boundaries, linked plans, tests, invariants, and examples. That idea maps closely to OpenAI’s recent post on [harness engineering](https://lnkd.in/gtHiDZbU): humans define intent and constraints; agents execute inside a well-structured environment. ExcelAlchemy itself is a schema-driven Python library for typed Excel workflows with Pydantic: template generation, workbook validation, error mapping, locale-aware result workbooks, and storage-backed integration. This branch is our small testbed for a bigger question: not “can agents code?” but “can we build repos they can reliably understand?” #AgentEngineering #HarnessEngineering #DeveloperTools #RepositoryDesign #Python #OpenSource #Pydantic #ExcelAutomation

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